and like these apparently non-secreting organs. DB. 
Ethelx is a very rare plant, found hitherto in only two 
places, both in the vicinity of Cape Town. 
B. pectinata varies but little, and chiefly in the colour of 
the lip, from white to pale violet. I find no notice of the con- 
vexity of the leaf, which is a marked character in the speci- 
mens cultivated at Kew. The genus was named by Brown 
after Thomas Bartholin, a celebrated Danish anatomist 
and physiologist, born in 1616, Professor first of Mathe- 
matics, and latterly of Anatomy at Copenhagen. This 
Bartholin was himself son of an eminent Anatomist (Caspar 
Bartholina), and father of an illustrious family. His health 
having given way under the stress of work, he retired to 
a small estate which he had purchased in Denmark, where 
in 1670 he lost his library and all his MSS. by fire. He died 
in 1680, leaving five sons, all of whom attained eminence as 
Professors respectively of Anatomy, Antiquities, Theology, 
Mathematics and History; and of his three daughters one 
acquired distinction as a poet. 
The Royal Gardens, Kew, are indebted to Harry Bolus, 
Esq., F.L.S., of Cape Town, for tubers of B. pectinata, 
which were received in 1892, and flowered in a cool house 
in the following July. 
Descr.—A small tuberous terrestrial Orchid, one-leaved, 
one-flowered, hairy all over, except the petals and lip. 
Tubers ovoid, about a third of an inch long. Leaf lying 
flat on the ground, one half to one inch diam., orbicular, 
convex, deeply 2-lobed, and amplexicaul at the base, dull 
green. Scape three to four inches high, very slender, red- 
brown, with a very small basal tubular sheath ; bract oblong- 
lanceolate, erect, herbaceous, half as long as the ovary. 
Flowers two to three inches broad across the lip. -Sepals 
about one-fourth of an inch long, erect, herbaceous, hairy- 
Petals longer, linear-lanceolate or subulate, straight or 
falcate, white. Lip 8-partite, each segment cut to the 
base into numerous spreading threads. Spur as long as 
the ovary, deflexed. Anther long, narrow, erect; cells 
parallel, half twisted. Pollinia oblong, stipes. long, gland 
Fig. 1, Tip of ovary, bas. : : Red : 
4, pollen alt iedoeaad: se of lip, petals and anther; 2, lip; 3, anther 
